Israel's War for Survival: Ignore the Left-wing naysayers

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As the war in Gaza enters its nineteenth month, Israel continues its military campaign against Hamas, fortified by strategic precision and a commitment—however questioned—to International Humanitarian Law. President Donald Trump once called steel tariffs a line in the sand; for Israel, the line is survival itself. While voices in the West, including EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, express concern over the scope and humanitarian toll of Israel’s actions, on the ground the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are carrying out what they see as a grim necessity: the dismantling of a deeply entrenched terrorist regime operating under the cover of civilian infrastructure.

 

Kallas recently stated that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas," but critics of such statements suggest that Western leaders like her fail to comprehend the sheer complexity of the battleground. “Perhaps she should head to Jerusalem and give precise instructions to the IDF on what they should be doing to eliminate the Hamas terrorist regime—assuming that’s what she actually wants,” a frontline observer commented. "She can tell them how you kill terrorists entwined into the population, hiding in tunnels beneath schools, hospitals and houses, protected by the most comprehensively booby-trapped terrain in the history of warfare, all while minimising harm to civilians."

 

Indeed, many claim that the IDF has acted with a level of discipline and humanitarian restraint unparalleled in modern warfare. With tens of thousands of Hamas fighters killed, including senior commanders such as Mohammed Deif, Yahya Sinwar, and most recently Mohammed Sinwar—who was reportedly killed in a tunnel beneath a hospital in Khan Younis—the toll on Hamas has been significant. “Those who have been dispatched have been replaced, though by less experienced and less able terrorists,” said one military analyst, “but I’m not sure how long the list of applicants will be for the Sinwar brothers’ uniquely hazardous job.”

 

The criticisms from European leaders and international bodies have only intensified as Israel expands its efforts to deliver humanitarian aid directly to Gazan civilians while bypassing Hamas. Kallas has dismissed these efforts, despite evidence that Gazans are queueing in the thousands and even camping out overnight to receive food. While the UN and some Western governments echo Hamas’s resistance to the aid system, observers argue this undermines genuine humanitarian support.

 

“Hamas also rejects this aid system and has been threatening Gazans against using it,” said a source familiar with the situation. “Nor does the UN like it one little bit, despite the outrageously fake assertion last week that 14,000 babies would die of malnutrition in 48 hours.” 

 

The underlying tension, critics argue, is not purely humanitarian—it’s political. With Hamas deeply weakened and Israel gaining military ground, some suggest that Western powers are uneasy not because of civilian casualties, but because an Israeli victory would disrupt the long-favored but increasingly distant dream of a two-state solution. “They utterly fail to recognise that a two-state solution is permanently interred after Hamas hammered the final nail into its coffin on October 7, 2023.”

 

Beyond Gaza, Israel has scored other major strategic victories. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon saw the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, via a dramatic operation involving explosive-laden pagers, as well as the destruction of much of Hezbollah’s long-range missile arsenal. Even Iran, long the patron of these groups, suffered severe blows. Its leader’s inability to prevent the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, along with Israel’s successful air campaign against its Russian-supplied defenses, has left the Islamic Republic exposed.

 

The growing international condemnation, many argue, only emboldens Hamas, giving the group political cover and leverage it no longer possesses on the battlefield. “Apart from the hostages it holds, its only card is the vilification of Israel by the international community and the accompanying weaponisation of legal warfare.”

 

Yet the path to peace, according to this perspective, remains straightforward: Hamas could end the suffering immediately by disarming and releasing the hostages. “If the EU, the UN and those governments so eager to condemn the Jewish state actually wanted to achieve peace, they would support Israel in words and actions, and condemn Hamas at every turn.”

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Telegraph  2025-05-31

 

 

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Hamas release the hostages and de arm. War over. It really is that simple.